Fastener.



No. 887,209. PATENTED MAY 12, 1908.

' A. M. MATTSON.

FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED 0012a, 1907.

WITHEIEEE:

- UNITED STATES ALFRED M.

PATENT OFFICE.

MATTSON, or BOSTON, MAssAoHUSETTs, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED STATEs FASTENER ooMPANY,OF BOSTON, MAsSAoHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1908.

Continuation of application Serial No. 379,864,4i1ed June 20, 1907. This application filed October 28, 1907.

Serial No. 399,542.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED M. MATTSON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Boston, inthe county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to snap fastening buckles such as may be used to secure together the two ends of a girdle, garter or other garment and has for its object the rovision of a snap fastener buckle which s all hold a strap adjustably but securely, and be adapted moreover to use with materials of different thickness andtexture.

This application is a continuation of my prior application N 0. 379,864 filedJune 20, 1907, and abandoned after the filing hereof. In the drawings hereto annexed which illustrate embodiments of my invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of my improved snapfastener buckle plate; Fig. 2 is a plan view of another form; Fig. 3 a cross scction of still another modification Fig. 4 a plan viewof the buckle plate shown in Fig. 3; Fig. 5 a cross section showing the mode of attaching a strap and buckle; Fig. 6 is an elevation of a stud adapted to cooperate with snap fastener buckle plates such as are shown in Figs. 1 to Elinolusive; and Fig. 7 is a top plan View of the buckle and strap shown in Fig. 5. i

As it has proved inexpedient in the construction of snap fastening buckles to employ buckles of ordinary form which consist of rectangular lates or franies with buckle tongues pivotall y secured so as to turn up or down, simple forms of buckle lates have been contrlved and adopted in w ich slots in the buckle plate are provided and relied upon to receive and. secure a stra WVhen the thickness of the material of W ich the strap is constructed and the width of the slots therein are suited to a strap of one particular thickness and texture, simple slots have not always proved adequate to receive and secure the strap; as the material of which straps are made inevitably varies in thickness and texture either by accident or the selection of the manufacturer, it has been found that snap fastener buckle lates of the type alluded to will be servicea is for some materials and unsatisfactory for others.

Bymy improvements herein to be de-' scribed, I provide a sna fastener buckle plate which retains all t e simplicity and compactness of the simple slotted late form but as also the advantage of se-f adjustability to different thicknesses and textures of materials, and further has the capacity of secure retention of a strap in spite of widevariations in the character of straps employed. In Fig. 1 A is the buckle plate centrally perforated at d and slotted on either side of the perforation d as at c. The central perforation provides for the insertion of an eye- 'let e which may serve as one member of the snap fastener pair, being ada ted to the reception and retention of a stur such as shown in Fig. 6, and also as a standard upon which is mounted the sliding plate B. This sliding plate maybe made in any desired shape but I prefer to make it generally rectangular in shape as shown in Fig. 1, and also to have one axis Of the rectangular sliding plate a little longer than the other, thus, as shown,

sides I). The sliding plate B is centrally perforated so as to be loosely mounted upon a Standard 0, that is to say, the central perfora tion in the sliding plate should be slightly larger than the standard 6, which retains it loosely in place. Furthermore, I prefer to make the perforation in the sliding plate B so that it may have a definite play in a direction pose, I make the perforation B as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, with four distinct lobes, so that, generally speaking, it is cruciform in shape. This shape of the perforation B allows the sliding plate to slide from one side against turning.

In Figs. 3 and 4 there is shown an alternative form wherein the sliding plate B is simply an annulus with a central aperture B which is loosely secured upon the shank of the standard 6.

In Fig. 2 there is shown a modified construction which differs from that shown in Fig. 1 in having the sides of the sliding plate B pointed or serrated for the better securement of the strap.

As shown in Fig. 5 the strap N is threaded up through a slot 0 over the sliding plate, B and down through the opposite slot 0. When the stra is adjusted to the proper length and the hue le plate A secured by engagement perpendicular to the slots 0 and for this pur of the base plate A to the other and guides it the sides I) may be a little longer than the with a fastener member suchas thestudS shown in Fig. 6, tension in either dlrection u on the strap N causes it to bear upon the which should be slit in order to provide resiliency if the stud F with which it cooperates is a solid or unyielding stud.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a snap fastening buckle, the combination of a base plate laterally slotted to receive a strap, a sliding late, one of said plates perforated, a stan ard on the other plate loosely playing in the perforation, said standard comprising a member of a snap fastening pair, said sliding plate cooperating with the edge of a slot in the base plate to secure a strap.

2.. In a snap fastening buckle, the c0mbination of a base plate centrally perforated and laterally slotted, a centrally perforated sliding plate, whereof one axis is longer than the other, and having a cruciform central a erture, a standard centrally mounted on t e base late, passing through said cruciform per oration and loosely .securing the slidin plate thereby. i is 4. n a snap fastening buckle, the combination of a slotted base plate, a rectangular sliding plate, whereof one axis is longer than the other and having a cruciform central aperture, a stud receiving eyelet, centrally mounted on the base plate, passing through said cruciform perforation and loosely securing the sliding plate thereby.

Signed by me at Boston, Massachusetts, this twenty-fifth day of October, 1907.

ALFRED M. MATTSON.

Witnesses:

GEO. A. HOLMES, A. M. SULLIVAN. 

